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Health chiefs are stockpiling hundreds of thousands of doses of MMR vaccine
amid warnings that Britain could face a national measles epidemic.

Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, said that he was taking the outbreak in
southwest Wales extremely seriously and that the Government had drawn up a
national plan to combat the highly infectious illness.

Officials are also preparing to announce a nationwide campaign aimed at
encouraging those who have not been immunised to have a catch-up vaccine.

The number of people infected with measles in Wales has risen to just under
900 during the past five days, while there